A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 125

Cousin?!

Cordy flinched while she was still in John’s arms, and he clearly felt her move!

“Come here,” John then told Zoe.

Zoe did so tentatively with an unsteady gait. Though her cheeks were flushed from alcohol, she looked utterly afraid, like a child about to ask their parents for forgiveness.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt you making out,” she said with a wounded tone. “I just needed to pee.”

On the other hand, although Cordy had been resistant toward being intimate with John, she was left so utterly awkward she buried her head within John’s embrace, too ashamed to show her face. John certainly knew that Cordy was embarrassed, but he was not letting her off the hook either. He pressed, “And what do you call my grandfather?”

“John, you’re scaring me.” Zoe’s pupils were dilating–did he somehow lose every bit of intelligence from making out?!

Still, seeing the serious look from her cousin, she had to answer honestly. “Grandfather.”

her face, “So? Do you understand the connection between

ears were blushing harder than when he bit her. Still, she nodded without looking up, keeping her head against

birth certificate as well,

quickly shook her head, even as Zoe was left even more puzzled

into you two?” Zoe could not

Though someone misunderstood that I

blinked as he suddenly felt a dainty hand

looked up from his chest, her eyes pleading him

embarrassing, it was more

could clearly feel it on her palm along with his

Zoe was perplexed by their curious

can go now,”

upset at that–was she supposed to

aren’t you leaving?” John said then, his tone

saying that Zoe was scared